OFF BALANCE, THE AMERICAN WAY OF HEALTH
What does this mean?
The concept behind this statement is that our bodies have a number of components that must be kept in balance in order to survive. Our bodies must have a certain amount of fluids, must be a certain temperature and pH level, have a certain amount of neurotransmitters and electrolytes. The blood must be a certain fluidity in order to flow and deliver oxygen and nutrients to the cells, and there must be a certain amount of glucose in the blood to be used as energy, among many others. There is an amazing amount of components that must be kept in balance, and our bodies have mechanisms to keep all these components in balance.
For thousands of years holistic practices were the standard way of health. Practices such as Ayurvedic Medicine in India and Traditional Chinese Medicine in China were the norm.
Ayurvedic Medicine started in India over 3000 years ago, and uses nutrition, herbal remedies, exercise, social interaction, meditation, and yoga. Ayurvedic Medicine strives to create harmony between the body, mind, and spirit, maintaining that this balance prevents illness, treats acute conditions, and contributes to a long and healthy life.
Traditional Chinese Medicine started in China 2000 years ago and uses nutrition, acupuncture, herbal remedies and lifestyle modifications. The key to health is the harmonious and balanced functioning of body, mind and spirit, and holds that the balance of health depends on the unobstructed flow of qi (pronounced chee) or “life energy” through the body, along pathways known as meridians.
Although different forms of healthcare are practiced in different parts of the world, Ayurvedic Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine have some similarities. Whether is it removing a toxin, releasing emotions, nutrition or exercise, both work to naturally and gently get the body back in balance and healthy. Both have been in existence for thousands of years. Western medicine and pharmaceutical drugs have only dominated the market for the past 50 years.
Now western medicine is the standard, and the difference is that instead of working to regain balance, the drugs are now keeping patients more comfortable while staying off balance. This is done at the expense of the patient who should be directed and guided to proactively working to change their lifestyle and get better.
Many people feel safe taking lots of medications, and falsely believe they will be able to maintain their health, and that they are doing ok since they are taking their meds as prescribed by their doctor. They may feel like they have the situation “under control.”
In fact, this is a very FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY.
My friend’s mother had continued to take her diabetes meds but did not significantly change her diet and ate excess sugars. She was on several meds, and her blood sugars were not too elevated, so she told her daughter, my friend she had it “under control.”
However, the disease continued to progress, and she developed gastroparesis which is paralysis of the stomach and she was no longer able to digest foods, and then could only get nutrition intravenously through the blood or through a feeding tube. This occurs in later more progressed stages of diabetes.
If she had gone to a holistic health practitioner, acupuncturist, or nutritionist, they would have given her behavior modifications, nutrition suggestions, or herbal remedies instead of toxic medications.
But by the time the problems start, it’s too late. She was in the hospital for two months, several organs were failing. She had fluid in her lungs and kidney failure. Her body wasn’t strong enough to recover and she passed at the age of 69 with only two and a half months after the problems started bubbling at the surface.
She had things to do, family and grandchildren that miss her dearly, and a best friend who for several years had been planning to drive around the country in an RV together.
But the medication made her more comfortable, made the blood tests appear normal, all at the expense of her health.
These medications provided a FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY!
With medications, the customers are made to feel comfortable as the disease progresses.
If you are on one or several medications for diabetes, you are not safe. You are being held together, or “under control” like a house of cards. The sooner you start changing and working to get off your medications and work to gently restore balance, the better.
Often people spend years keeping themselves off balance with medications, and then they will go to a holistic practitioner, like an Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner, or a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner one time and declare “it doesn’t work”. Again, with holistic health care, balance must be gently restored through lifestyle modifications and other natural methods.
The balance scales are the analogy I use in my book, Off Balance, The American way of Health.
Because medications are not working to help you regain balance, they are only keeping you more comfortable as you remain off balance.
BALANCE SCALES
1 – A Healthy Body Body in balance
2 – Patient is Sick Body off Balance
3 – Brace to Provide Relief In rheumatoid arthritis, a pill will be prescribed to reduce the swelling and make the patient more comfortable, but this does not address the cause.
4 – Relief is Temporary As the disease progresses and side effects occur.
5 – Another Brace Add another pill to ease the symptoms or relieve the side effects.
6 – Disease Progresses Disease continues to progress and even more side effects occur.
7 – Loss of Good Nutrients A common side effect.
8 – Off Balance, The American Way of Health If you are compliant and listen to your doctor, this is what your health may eventually look like. The extra bucket represents the high-tech expensive drugs, that only work to further maintain the sick, off-balance state.
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